No one can hold absolute power for long, controlled power endures.
Unjust rule does not last forever.
It is the characteristic of a weak and diseased mind to fear the unfamiliar.
There is this blessing, that while life has but one entrance, it has exits innumerable, and as I choose the house in which I live, the ship in which I will sail, so will I choose the time and manner of my death.
Life is long if it is full.
The Germans, a race eager for war.
All we see and admire today will burn in the universal fire that ushers in a new, just, happy world.
The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet.
Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
Dignity increases more easily than it begins.
Lightning will wreck its displeasures not only upon pillars, trees, and sheep, but upon altars and temples, and let the sacrilegious go free.
That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance.
A good mind is a lord of a kingdom.
The proper amount of wealth is that which neither descends to poverty nor is far distant from it.
The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience, the next for health of mind, and then of body.
The origin of all mankind was the same; it is only a clear and good conscience that makes a man noble, for that is derived from heaven itself.
Anger is like a ruin, which, in falling upon its victim, breaks itself to pieces.
He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.